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Alex @marshallexi.bsky.social · 4h

We watched Goldeneye at the cinema this week and the bad guy was all ‘set off an EMP, erase the economy, erase debts, erase credit ratings’ and we both came out afterwards thinking ‘they should have heard him out, this had legs today’.

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Keith Gow @keithgow.bsky.social · 4h

Democracy Repair Service flits and flies towards the light, a whisper of moths trying to solve climate change and figure out the right way to protest. www.keithgow.com/2025/10/revi...

REVIEW: Democracy Repair Service by Noemie Huttner-Koros

Agrotis infusa means “infused by the land” – part of terra firma. Agrotis comes from the Greek meaning “farmer”. Ironically, the nomenclatu...

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Keith Gow @keithgow.bsky.social · 7h

I love a play in a car park and this piece was so entertaining - the love and drama of an inner-suburban house party! www.keithgow.com/2025/10/revi...

REVIEW: I Promise This Isn’t About You (Even If It Feels Like It Is) by Sarah Matthews – Melbourne Fringe

Friendship at any age can be tricky. Trying to find the time to be present, to listen to their joys and woes, to not trauma dump or be traum...

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Keith Gow @keithgow.bsky.social · 10h

Haha yes!

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 17h

We are changing our antifa secret handshake to slap-slap-fistbump-fistbump. Then you snap your fingers once, eat everyone's pets, and make everyone within 50' instantly become trans. Pass it along.

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Keith Gow @keithgow.bsky.social · 12h

SANCTION ISRAEL YOU JELLYFISH OF A HUMAN BEING

6 News Australia @6newsau.bsky.social · 13h

#BREAKING 🚨 Anthony Albanese and Penny Wong have released a joint statement after Israel and Hamas signed off the first phase of a peace plan

The federal government said it welcomes the announcement and thanks US president Donald Trump "for his diplomatic efforts"

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h

More and more Democrats are calling out the Mad King, you love to see it

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 16h

“This is a man who’s suffering dementia,” said @govpritzker.illinois.gov. “This is a man who has something stuck in his head … He doesn’t read. He doesn’t know anything that’s up to date. It’s just something in the recesses of his brain that is effectuating to have him call out these cities.”

Gov. JB Pritzker says President Trump deploying troops to Chicago due to ‘dementia’ and obsessive fixations

Democratic governor’s comments came as he continues to oppose President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago area for deportation efforts.

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Lux Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 17h

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Keith Gow @keithgow.bsky.social · 13h

I hate this answer is in response to a question about the "AI actor" which he avoids and basically says no one cares about digital actors. Fuck all the way off.

britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 22h

Jason Blum's take on AI sucks. an AI takeover isn't inevitable, and treating it as such (while also referring to filmmaking as "content creation," smdh) helps AI companies promote the lie that their deeply unprofitable, destructive tech is more powerful and useful than it actually is.

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BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 13h

We need execs to start saying “AI SUCKS SHIT” and that be the only statement. Anything else? I don’t wanna fucking hear it.

britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 22h

Jason Blum's take on AI sucks. an AI takeover isn't inevitable, and treating it as such (while also referring to filmmaking as "content creation," smdh) helps AI companies promote the lie that their deeply unprofitable, destructive tech is more powerful and useful than it actually is.

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Robgoblin 🎃👻👺🧙‍♀️🧹💀 @robwillb.bsky.social · 16h

Pretty much all of my in-person friends including my partner can be traced to social media going back decades (even friends I met in person were mostly via people I met on social media), particularly invaluable in moving countries. And then there's Bona Books, which is also thanks to social media.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Keith Gow @keithgow.bsky.social · 14h

After Silence of the Lambs, none of the films that featured Hannibal Lecter were good, let alone great. (The Hannibal TV show however! But let's never speak of the show, Clarice, which you probably forgot ever happened.)

Matt Singer @mattsinger.bsky.social · 1d

Food for thought: What is the worst franchise made from the best movie?

15 Great Movies That Were Ruined By Becoming Franchises

These classic films should never have gotten sequels.

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it's charloween! (it/its) @charloh.online · 15h

maybe the real girlfriends of the founders of antifa are the friends we made up along the way

Cody @codyjohnston.bsky.social · 15h

the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa

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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 15h

It's Sally Bowles

The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 15h

The “girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa” couldn’t be any younger than 90 years old you stupid fucking fascist orcs.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 16h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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SSOB @carriempruett.bsky.social · 18h

in pretend times. it's pretend. why do people have so much trouble with 'pretend'?

Vulture @vulture.com · 19h

When exactly does ‘One Battle After Another’ take place? An attempt to pin down Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest in the past, present, and/or future.

When Exactly Does One Battle After Another Take Place?

When exactly does ‘One Battle After Another’ take place? An attempt to pin down Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest in the past, present, and/or future.

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Keith Gow @keithgow.bsky.social · 16h

Twitter was great for networking in the early days. I don't think I'd be the theatre critic (published, widely read) I am without the connections I made back then.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 18h

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 18h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 16h

Ew ew ew just for an ad for one of those AI assistants in which a woman asks it to write a haiku about her cat.

You can’t write a 3 line, 17 syllable poem about your cat?????

What is being alive for if not writing tiny little poems about your cat??!!

Add this to my joker file. Good lord.

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Keith Gow @keithgow.bsky.social · 1d

OMG

Craig Rothery @craigrothery.bsky.social · 1d

Lillian Gish's first film came out the year the Titanic sank.

Lillian Gish's last film came out the year The Simpsons first appeared on TV.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Keith Gow @keithgow.bsky.social · 1d

Katharine Hepburn could have watched all of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Keith Gow @keithgow.bsky.social · 1d

Love this production. Would love to see Cerveris as Scrooge.

Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · 1d

Tony winner Michael Cerveris will play Scrooge in Jack Thorne's adaptation of A CHRISTMAS CAROL, returning to New York for an Off Broadway run, beginning November 23.

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